GROW News Nov/2007

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Vol. 2, No. 9, Nov. 2007

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Training Courses

 

 

 

1. People

 

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

 

GROW has a new member. Vikash Mukesh will work on his M.SC. thesis.

 

Additionally, Mónica Antunes became part of the monIT team.

 

A warm welcome to both.

 

 

2. Publications

 

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

 

Martijn Kuipers, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Understanding Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”, Proc. of EuCAP 2007 – 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, UK, Nov. 2007

 

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião e Luis M. Correia, “Updated Results from the Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring Programme of the monIT Project” (in Portuguese), Proc. of XIII Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007

 

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems” (in Portuguese), Proc. of Seminar of the Portuguese Committee of URSI on “Radiocommunications – New paradigms and health impact”, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.

 

Jordi Pérez-Romero, Oriol Sallent, Andrea Barbaresi, Rickard Ljung, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Advanced Radio Resource Management Solutions in AROMA”, Proc. of AROMA Workshop on Trends in Radio Resource Management, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2007.

 

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Luigi Iannone, Lars Berlemann and Luis M. Correia, “Making Wireless Mesh Networking More Flexible toward Self-Organizing Community Networks”, submitted to IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Mesh Networks (to be issued in July/August 2008)

 

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model for Heterogeneous Networks Management and Performance Evaluation “, accepted on NOMS 08 – IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Salvador, Brazil, Apr. 2008.

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2007-11-11/16

Martijn Kuipers, “Understanding Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”

EuCAP 2007 – 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, UK

 

2007-11-21

António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro

AROMA Workshop on Trends in Radio Resource Management, Barcelona, Spain

 

2007-11-22

Carla Oliveira, “Updated Results from the Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring Programme of the monIT Project” (in Portuguese)

Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes

XIII Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Nov. 2007

 

2007-11-28

Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems” (in Portuguese),

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes

Seminar of the Portuguese Committee of URSI on “Radiocommunications – New paradigms and health impact”, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador has circulated within the project a document with the second IST-TUL contribution to D18, and another with the first IST-TUL contribution to Simulators Validation and Comparison.

 

 

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

Martijn Kuipers circulated final contributions to WP240 Deliverable, on channel modelling for Body Area Networks, in a joint collaboration with France Telecom R&D.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The continuous monitoring networks of Almada and Caldas da Rainha were deactivated; the final reports are already available at monIT’s website. The project team also was involved in several public actions, such as “Terceiras Jornadas da Inovação” (Associação Industrial Portuguesa/Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), “Jornadas da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção Contra Radiações” and “1.º Seminário do Comité Português da URSI” (União Radiocientífica Internacional). The project just completed five years of activities, having held a press conference where all the Project results were presented. Finally, there is a new member in the project team, Mónica Antunes.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Deliverable D2.2 “Design of the lower layer techniques for WIP Advanced Wireless Infrastructure”, edited by Lúcio S. Ferreira, was delivered to the European Commission.

 

 

5. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

 

Luis M. Correia lectured a course for industry on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2007-11-30.